Life Quotes Quote by Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”

“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.”

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”

“I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

“Everything in life is luck.”